> -----Original Message----- > ICANN has no operational knobs it can tweak at the 2nd+ level. Verisign > does. Precisely. I suspect that claim in the article that ICANN was involved was simply false. > I'd really like if some of the numerous reports citing a Court order > provide more information about it or a link, so far I'm still trying > to find a concrete reference or the actual order. But that's the disturbing thing about this case, Jorge. It appears that no court order was ever served on toerrent-finder. > Both the .com (supposedly seized) and the .info (still working) are > registered by the same person with address in Egypt. If - as appears to be the case - this action depended on the cooperation of the registry, it may be that VeriSign was more "cooperative" than Afilias.